Data Management And Technical Lead

Background

The Portfolio Analysis Team (PAT) is within the Policies, Procedures, and Systems Assurance Division of the Office of System Architecture and Advanced Planning (OSAAP) in the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) within the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) located in Silver Spring, MD. OSAAP PAT provides observing requirements data, observing system portfolio/architecture analysis, and manages the data sets for analytical support to NESDIS and NOAA senior leadership, and the NOAA Observing Systems Council (NOSC). In this capacity, OSAAP PAT is the analytical working group for the Observing Systems Committee (OSC), a NOSC Sub-Committee. OSAAP PAT manages the Earth Observing Systems (EOS), Earth Observing Requirements (EOR), and product value tree information (VTI) data sets for NESDIS and NOAA. OSAAP PAT also provides technical support and analysis, program advocacy, and capital asset planning recommendations to NOAA leadership.

OSAAP PAT maintains, manages, and stores the data sets for all of NOAA’s observing systems, observing requirements, and observing system portfolio analyses, as well as NESDIS’ product and requirements data sets. OSAAP PAT utilizes these data sets to carry out its analyses. OSAAP PAT’s analytical products provide information to help NOAA and NESDIS Senior Leadership make informed decisions related to mission planning, observing system architecture, budgeting, and mission sustainment. OSAAP PAT must also maintain sound program management, consistent and accurate analysis tools, and an efficient action tracking system. OSAAP PAT requires contract support to ensure these data sets are coordinated, functional, reliable and enhanced as needed; and the overall flow of information is uninterrupted.

The contractor shall assist OSAAP PAT in the optimum planning for NOAA’s observing needs as well as NESDIS’ planning needs more specifically. The contractor shall contribute to solutions to support distributed, partnered and centralized observing needs and strive for more effective and cost-efficient observing and data management operations. OSAAP PAT is continually tasked with providing leadership, line offices and individuals across NOAA with sound and accurate information on the management of NOAA Observing Portfolio of Systems and Observing Requirements.

OSAAP PAT has informational interactive websites and data that provide NOAA with up to date and pertinent data. https://nosc.noaa.gov/OSC/, https://nosc.noaa.gov/. OSAAP PAT is called on by the NOSC to conduct technical assessments and technical analysis and provide recommendations to improve and optimize the design, organization and end to end planning of the NOAA Observing System portfolio.

OSAAP PAT provides strategic planning, observing systems portfolios, program advocacy, requirements collection, assessment, and validation to NOAA’s Line Offices. OSAAP PAT performs observing and information system assessments and analyses for the NOSC, and submits recommendations as to thebest efficiency of our system portfolio. OSAAP PAT also provides support to the entire NOAA community and other Federal agencies by providing data and/or data analyses using in-house databases and associated customized analysis tools. Additionally, OSAAP PAT provides analysis and recommendations to support NESDIS’ user engagement, architecture and product and service strategies through its NOAA value chain and requirements evaluations. OSAAP PAT integrates NESDIS’ product and requirements datasets into the larger NOAA data sets for facilitating NESDIS decision making and planning through assessments and analyses.

OSAAP PAT provides the stewardship for the observation systems and requirements datasets for NOAA’s observing capabilities and provides analysis on the satisfaction of the products produced. The system that houses the data is called the Earth Observation Requirements Evaluation System (EORES). EORES I s a relational database system architecture jointly developed by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and NOAA. The objective of the work is to collect, manage, and enhance NOAA’s observing requirements, observing system inventory, system capabilities, systems life cycle cost information, and the key NOAA products and services that use these observing systems. OSAAP PAT also provides strategic planning analysis, observing systems portfolio assessment and product impact assessment for NESDIS and NOAA using OSAAP PAT databases, customized analysis tools, data analyses, and associated capabilities. The prime objective of OSAAP PAT’s work is to provide the best observing system portfolio for the dollars spent. OSAAP PAT also needs to provide maintenance, integrity, and archiving of the data.

Team Lead

• Provide a contractor task leader to guide the team and provide an interface with division leadership.
• Support the continued development of Earth Observation Requirements Evaluation System (EORES).
• Define, refine, and make recommendations for strategic planning, communications plans, IT architecture, and project portfolios.
• Foster and maintain intra-and inter-NOAA partnerships, including: representing NOAA’s interests as the NOAA lead for the system design, planning, execution, and maintenance of a database application for storing and managing Earth observing requirements, observation capabilities, and value assessments (EORES-Earth Observation Requirements Evaluation System which has been jointly developed and built by a NOAA-USGS team); representing NOAA’s interests working with the NESDIS OCIO, who maintains NESDIS IT infrastructure.
• Investigate, provide solutions, and make recommendations to solve application issues and

shortcomings, including performing trade studies of commercial alternatives to building systems in- house.

• Lead and coordinate testing of database releases, including updating testing documentation.
• Ability to analyze and resolve complex issues.
• Provide extensive knowledge of information systems operation and management.
• Represent the EORES team at OSAAP Portfolio Analysis Team (PAT) Staff meetings, other applicable OSAAP Staff meetings, and USGS meetings.
• Foster and maintain intra-and inter-NOAA partnerships; liaison with USGS, other Federal agencies and government working groups, as needed.
• 5+ years demonstrable Database Design experience
• 5+ years demonstrable Application Design experience
• 5+ years demonstrable experience working with databases and scripting languages like PHP, Java, HTML, Javascript, XML, and PostGreSQL
• Experience defining and utilizing application program interfaces between different applications
• Experience building and troubleshooting applications and suggesting design or code changes to rectify issues

Work Location: Metro DC